DJ Sakata
This heralds my first experience reading this wily author and I am ever so impressed, her clever storylines were cunningly paced, well nuanced, and laced with brain-tickling intrigue while taut with tension. Her compelling characters were deliciously twisty, uniquely tainted, and curiously torqued. Written from the first person POV of Marie, who was obviously emotionally and a bit mentally unstable as well as a compulsive liar, obsessively driven, paranoid, and riddled with anxiety, just to name a few of her most pesky symptoms. The insightfully written and profoundly shrewd use of inner musings and observations detailing Marie’s obsessive and deceptive traits and compulsions were spot on and brilliantly crafted. I was riveted to my Kindle and thoroughly entertained while I immersed myself in Marie’s troubled yet compelling gray matter and devious schemes. It was divinely twisty.
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Teri Hicks
This was a kind of painful read. The story wasn't bad per se it just didn't work for me. I really just felt like the author tried so hard to make it thrilling and complicated that the entire time you feel out of sorts. She is fulfilling a death bed promise and has absolutely no idea just how convoluted the entire promise and execution would be. She realizes too late that things are not as they appear and that she may have been played. But that's not it. When the truth comes out she finds herself reeling and learns that true friends are hard to find. The characters truly left me scratching my head throughout the book wondering why, on so many levels. It just didn't work for me but that's my opinion and mine alone.
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